Word: segregationism
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In the genteel Cape Province town of Grahamstown, 58 Negroes were jailed for walking in the streets after curfew (11 p.m.). In Pretoria, 20 singing Negroes and one Indian were arrested for marching into the "white" section of the railway station. Eight hundred nonwhites were in jail in East London...
Despite his success at breaking down the legal wall of segregation that has long surrounded higher education in Texas, Heman Sweatt, 39, the first Negro admitted to the University of Texas law school, found the study of law a much tougher proposition. Last year he flunked out. But Dean Page...
Some Negroes complained that the Spalding Pavilion perpetuated the segregation which they hate-besides a separate kitchen and laundry, it even has its own morgue. The majority were satisfied to have the physical plant, as good as anything Atlanta has for whites, and to let the segregation issue work itself...
¶ At Sewanee, Tenn., eight faculty members of the University of the South (including the dean and five members of the Theological School faculty, the university chaplain and the head of the college religion department) threatened to resign over their trustees' decision not to admit Negro seminarians. The trustees...
¶ FEPC: He would not endorse the current FEPC program because he objects to its "federal, compulsory" nature. But he gives small comfort to the advocates of segregation, promises "my unalterable support of fairness and equality among all types of American citizens. I believe that insofar as the Federal Government...